Jul 27, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. I share it in response to the complicated question of can Bipolar II disorder be treated? Though no one has found a cure, Bipolar II can be...
Jul 20, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. My most challenging struggles with Bipolar II disorder is the severity and unrelenting nature of the depression and how that is compounded by my Inner...
Jul 13, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. Socializing is excruciating when in the grip of Bipolar II disorder—but to what degree should I isolate? Wouldn’t it negatively affect my kid’s...
Jul 7, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. There are many sub-illnesses and pathologies that accompany Bipolar II disorder. Here’s a story about one mine: I experience “excoriation,” a symptom...
Jun 28, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. Simple, everyday conceptual tasks that we take for granted are nearly impossible for me now. I’m submerged in depression. I remember one day it takes...
Apr 14, 2021 | Mental Health, Shadow Work
This Blows My Mind Do you ever get that feeling when a whole bunch of synapses in your brain connect in a new way? You have a breakthrough moment of understanding that changes everything? Thanks to Resmaa Menakem’s NYT groundbreaking bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands:...
Dec 29, 2020 | Mental Health
Covid has the entire globe in a headlock, choking everything. But Covid’s impact on moms, according to many new reports, is suffocating and threatens the wellbeing of women everywhere. Let’s face it, being a mom is hard enough. And a working mom, even harder. And...
Dec 22, 2020 | Mental Health
Bipolar Lurks Under the Surface Threatening All The first time bipolar almost killed me was long before I knew I had bipolar. Living with it, surviving it, would become one of the greatest challenges in my life as it is for millions of others every day. That time, way...
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